444–5

Conversation No. 444-5

Date: June 11, 1973
Time: Unknown between 2:13 pm and 2:55 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President met with J. Fred Buzhardt.

Watergate

-John W. Dean, III

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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)

-Possible cross-examination
-Buzhardt’s forthcoming meeting with Fred D. Thompson
-Procedures
-Dean’s contacts with President
-News summaries
-Inconsistencies
-Ronald L. Ziegler’s briefing notes
-Richard A. Moore
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s notes
-John D. Ehrlichman conversations
-Treatment by media

-News summaries

-Staff secretary


Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:13 pm.

Telephone call from Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo

-Stephen B. Bull


Rebozo talked with the President between 2:17 pm and 2:18 pm.

[Conversation No. 444-5A]

[Begin telephone conversation]

[See Conversation No. 40-7]

[End telephone conversation]

Watergate

-Dean

-Possible cross-examination

-News summaries

-President’s markings
-L[ouis] Patrick Gray, III hearings
-Executive privilege
-President’s recollection
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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)

-Investigation
-Scope
-1972 and later
-Charles A. Wright’s meeting with Fred F. Fielding

-Fielding’s views

-Documents

-Newsweek story

-Documents
-President’s awareness
-March 21, 1973 conversation with President
-Content
-Raising money for defendants
-Use immunity
-Judge John J. Sirica’s forthcoming ruling, June 12, 1973
-Archibald Cox’s possible response
-Transactional immunity

-US attorneys

-Prosecutors’ views

-Cox

-Knowledge of case
-Forthcoming sworn testimony

-Immunity, perjury

-Innuendo

-Cross-examination

-Ervin Committee hearings
-Schedule
-Maurice H. Stans
-Herbert L. Porter
-Stans, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Charles W. Colson, Dean
-Stans
-Forthcoming Leonid Brezhnev visit
-Daniel K. Inouye’s conversation with Jonathan C. Rose
-International Telephone and Telegraph [ITT]
-Alexander M. Haig’s conversation with President
-Haig’s conversation with Elliot L. Richardson
-Richardson
-Responsibility
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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)

-Relationship to President

-Dita D. Beard

-Cox

-Transfer of records

-Dean
-News summaries
-Buzhardt’s review of President’s markings
-Conversations with President
-Henry Petersen
-Daniel Ellsberg break-in
-Petersen’s knowledge

-Timing

-President’s knowledge
-Dean
-Petersen’s April 15, 1973 memorandum [memo]
-National security

-Ehrlichman’s knowledge concerning Dean’s knowledge

-Dr. Lewis Fielding

-Dean’s relationship with Petersen

-Buzhardt’s relationship with Petersen

-Petersen’s April 15, 1973 memorandum

-Cox

-John F. Kennedy administration

-Dean
-Role
-Motive
-John Mitchell
-Questioning of Haldeman
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Petersen, Earl J. Silbert
-Petersen
-Ellsberg break-in
-Papers sent to Judge William M. Byrne
-Delay
-National security
-Ehrlichman
-Conversation with President
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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)

-Justice Department
-E. Howard Hunt, Jr.
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Gray
-ITT
-San Diego Hotel payments

-Relationship to campaign

-President’s news summaries
-Buzhardt’s review
-Dean’s possible references
-Timeframe of documents

-Petersen

-President’s notations for Dean

-White House staff cooperation with Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)
-Haldeman

-Spring 1973

-Gray hearings

-1972

-Haldeman compared to Dean

-Timeframe of documents

-Contributions to documents

-President, Haldeman
-Dean
-Allegations against President
-Denial
-Forthcoming Ervin Committee testimony

-Cross-examination

-Perjury

-Immunity

-Perjury

-Buzhardt’s forthcoming conversation with Thompson
-White House response
-Melvin R. Laird, Bryce N. Harlow
-Ervin Committee hearings
-Momentum
-Duration
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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)

-Schedule of testimony
-Magruder, Stans, Colson, Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman
-Popular opinion
-Press coverage

-Compared to testimony

-Credibility

-Douglas Kiker report

-Sally Harmony’s testimony
-Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Colson
-News conference
-Press analysis
-Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell

-President

-Buzhardt’s conversation with Colson

-Conversation with President in early 1973
-Mitchell
-Phraseology
-Content
-Dean
-Petersen
-Investigation
-Magruder
-President’s assessment
-Dean’s role
-Petersen
-Contacts with President
-White House involvement
-Dean
-Contacts with President

-Richard G. Kleindienst’s statement

-News summaries

-President’s notations

-Insinuations concerning Dean’s possible tape recordings

-Veracity

-Haig’s belief

-President’s possible response
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Conversation No. 444-5 (cont’d)


Buzhardt left at 2:55 pm.